Thanks.. it worked out by just replacing a : with a ; at the end of that statement. Paul On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Paul Zimdars wrote:
I was wondering how I could easily delete 1 specific file throughout several subdirectories without having to type rm <filename> in each subdirectorie.
I tried rm -r Makefile-noedit from the top level and it just says Makefile-noedit : No such file or directory.
if I got to each subdirectory and do rm Makefile-noedit it works.
Try:
find <dir> -name <filename> -exec rm {} \:
Paul Abrahams
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